Compatibility of .NET Framework 4.5 – Brandon Bray discusses the in place update nature of the .NET 4.5 release where by it replaces your currently installed .NET 4, discussing the compatibility requirements that this introduces, and the types of compatibility issues which may be encountered.

WinRT and Mono – Miguel de Icaza discusses how WinRT fits in with the big picture for the Mono Project, discussing why the Mono team won’t be producing their own WinRT stack, and how Win RT fits in with their current policy of using native UI toolkit platforms.

Dependency Management in .Net: install2 – Derek Greer shares a NuGet Extension for retrieving application level build time external dependencies and transitive dependencies, neatly illustrating how extensions can be added to NuGet to extend the tool.

(Yet another) nHibernate sessionmanager for ASP.NET (MVC) – Peter van Ooijen takes fresh look at the creation and management of the NHibernate Session, discussing the requirements and sharing a solution which uses FluentNHibernate and supports use both in web applications and in unit tests, along with discussion of the design decisions – also check out the comments for more discussion.

Internals of .NET Objects and Use of SOS – Abhishek Sur continues his internals series with a look at how objects are created and exist in memory, looking at how you can debug and explore this type of thing using the SOS WinDBG Extension.

The Ordered Jobs Kata – Martin Rue shares a new Kata exercise derived from a real world problem he encountered about the ordering of jobs which have dependencies on other jobs

NuGet Feed – NuGet Feed is a new website which enables developers to track release of the NuGet Packages they make use of via RSS feeds, Google Chrome plugin. The team behind the site have made it easy for you to start tracking the packages you use via a Visual Studio Extension which will pick up your projects references and import them into the NuGetFeed site.

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An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility – Simone Chiaretta kicks off a series of posts looking at how you can extend the ASP.NET MVC framework to achieve your aims, looking initially at the extension of the pipeline via routing extensions

Internals of Interface and its Implementation – Abhishek Sur continues with his Internals series with a post taking a look at the internals of Interface implementation in .NET focusing specifically on explicit interface implementations and explaining the theory and looking at how that is manifested at the IL level.

NuGet push… to Windows Azure – Maarten Balliauw shares a prototype of an Azure NuGetRole which allows you to push NuGet packages to the cloud as a means of deployment – neat stuff, and a good demonstration of how NuGet can be consumed in code.

Pluggable Model Conventions – Stuart Leeks is also taking a look at the extensibility of ASP.NET , showing how a custom ModelMetadataProvider can be created allowing you to use your own conventions in your models to have certain behaviours applied.

Native WinRT Inheritance – Ian Griffiths continues his exploration of WinRT at a low level using C++ taking a look at how WinRT and Inheritance actually work at the COM Level in order to allow you to derive from the WinRT Application class.

"The Happy Developer" – Is it a Myth? – Scottish Developers welcome Andy Gibson for a discussion session on Tuesday 1st November in Glasgow where Andy will discuss the pitfalls of being a developer in these difficult times, and look at some ways you can make your developer life better.

In The Brain of Robert Pickering – Skills Matter welcome Rob Pickering for an ‘In the brain of…’ session on Tuesday 1st November where Rob will take a look at combinators and discuss their use in building Internal DSLs, discussing their use in industrial problems.

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AutoMapper 2.0 Released – Jimmy Bogard announces the release of AutoMapper 2.0. his new version targets .NET 4 and supports its use in Silverlight 4, improved support for mapping inheritance structures, along with enhancing many of the existing features too.

Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 Released – The ADO.NET Entity Framework Team announce the release of their 3rd preview release of the Entity Framework Code First Migrations project. This release focuses again on the development time features, and makes some progress in the deployment stories they hope to implement. As always, the team are keen to hear your feedback.

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Writing a Recipe for ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview – Phil Haack introduces the concept of Recipes in ASP.NET MVC4, as a GUI implementation of the kinds of commands that NuGet packages can add, taking a look at creating your own recipes to help automate tasks

Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published – Mike Ormond announces the publication of the community written E-Book he has produced with help fro the Windows Phone Developer community. The ebook is available for free in PDF format and can be cheaply purchased in print format and features content from over 10 developers.

Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez takes a look at the features of the new Page Inspector included in the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11 which provides improved capabilities for decomposing web pages and helping you diagnose problems in your web applications.

Debugging Tools Survival Guide – Sebastian Dau shares a nice overview of the various debugging tools available for debugging .NET applications, looking at the different scenarios each is suitable for.